Heavenly Frosted Banana Bars have just the right amount of ingredients, which makes it so hard to resist all those wonderful mellow tones of banana, vanilla Greek yogurt, vanilla and cream cheese frosting....awe yum!
Same ole' story...ripe bananas need to be used. BOOM! They wanted to be used, so I used them good. And might I say...even they would like the outcome. I did you proud bananas with my Frosted Banana Bars!
Long story short?
I gobbled them up like nobody's business. No wonder my husband was like..."You're eating them again?" Umm...Crap! *Busted again Folks!* (I highly think he needs to stay out of my biz...ya know?)
The really creamy, divine cream cheese frosting paired with light and fluffy banana bars is freakin' ducky! 🙂 If you don't know what 'ducky' is? It means, it's all good! Kind of an old school adjective that a friend I used to work with said all the time.
So...It's not too over the top rich, and it's the perfect snacking bars for afternoon. The cake bars have a sponge-like texture. These banana bars remind me of Twinkies only wayyyyy better! (And without all the preservatives!)
Double the recipe of this Heavenly Frosted Banana Bars and you get a nice large sheet cake for large gatherings. Perfectly acceptable for breakfast or as I like to think, anytime 24/7. 
So who's ready for a slice of heaven or two? Hope you enjoy! Happy Baking.
More Banana Desserts!
- Starbuck's Banana Bread
- cEasy No-Bake Banana Cream Pie
- dDouble Chocolate Banana Bread
- cPerfect Banana Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies
- dPerfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins! Fluffy & Moist!
Heavenly Frosted Banana Bars
Ingredients
- ¾ cup sugar
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 egg
- ½ cup Vanilla Greek Yogurt
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ½ cups flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- *1 - 2 medium ripe mashed bananas depending on how much banana flavor you want-I used 1
Frosting
- 4 oz . cream cheese softened
- ⅓ cup butter soft
- 1 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- Optional: 2 tablespoons Heavy cream if you want it more creamy
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
- Using mixer, cream sugar, butter and eggs.
- Add in yogurt and vanilla and mix until combined.
- Whisk together the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, salt, then add to wet ingredients.
- Stir in ripe mashed banana.
- Pour into a 9x13 baking pan lined with tin foil, leaving sides higher on opposite sides to pull out of pan easily or grease pan.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
Frosting
- Mix all ingredients together, then spread over cooled cake.
- Cut and serve, then keep remainder cake bars in refrigerater.
Notes
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Sara says
I love banana anything so I tried making these today. My only deviation from the recipe was that I used brown sugar (I was fresh out of regular sugar) and mine turned out very flat and dense, not fluffy at all. Would using brown sugar cause that difference in consistency? Or do you any suggestions as to where I could have gone wrong?
Kim Lange says
I use unsalted but you could use salted, just omit salt when it's called out in desserts. Hope you enjoy Renee!!
Renee says
These sound great and I planning to make them. Just wondering whether you use Salted or Unsalted butter.
Kim Lange says
Jodi, great to hear! Thank you for adding to your list of favorite cakes, that is awesome and I appreciate it so much. 🙂
Jodi says
I made these banana bars yesterday to take to work. They tasted amazing, then paired with the delicious cream cheese frosting, they were so good. I had so many compliments from co-workers, they were gone before lunch. I used 2 bananas and I felt that was a perfect amount ~ not too strong banana taste, but perfect. They were dense, but I loved that. I will definitely be adding this recipe to my list of favorite cakes. Thanks for the great recipe!!
Kelly @ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats says
Texture of a Twinkie?! Count me in!!! These banana bars definitely sound heavenly. Pinning! Xoxo 🙂
ChocolaTess says
Enjoy!!
Anonymous says
I am excited to make this?
ChocolaTess says
Thanks Teresa! I hear you! I have some more as we speak! 😉
teresa says
I'm sure I will be making these soon! We always have bananas that need to be used up!